diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index b0a522088..73faece45 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -89,8 +89,7 @@ set(AWE_MAN_SRCS
 set(AWE_MAN_LANGS es fr de)
 
 add_executable(${PROJECT_AWE_NAME}
-    ${AWE_SRCS}
-    ${BUILD_DIR}/common/tokenize.c)
+    ${AWE_SRCS})
 
 set_target_properties(${PROJECT_AWE_NAME}
     PROPERTIES
@@ -121,30 +120,9 @@ add_custom_command(
     COMMENT "Generating atoms-intern.h"
     VERBATIM)
 
-# gperf
-add_custom_command(
-    COMMAND ${SOURCE_DIR}/build-utils/gperf.sh
-    ARGS    ${SOURCE_DIR}/common/tokenize.gperf
-            ${BUILD_DIR}/common/tokenize.h
-    OUTPUT  ${BUILD_DIR}/common/tokenize.h
-    DEPENDS ${SOURCE_DIR}/common/tokenize.gperf
-            ${SOURCE_DIR}/build-utils/gperf.sh
-    COMMENT "Generating common/tokenize.h")
-
-add_custom_command(
-    COMMAND ${SOURCE_DIR}/build-utils/gperf.sh
-    ARGS    ${SOURCE_DIR}/common/tokenize.gperf
-            ${BUILD_DIR}/common/tokenize.c
-    OUTPUT  ${BUILD_DIR}/common/tokenize.c
-    DEPENDS ${SOURCE_DIR}/common/tokenize.gperf
-            ${SOURCE_DIR}/build-utils/gperf.sh
-    COMMENT "Generating common/tokenize.c")
-
 add_custom_target(generated_sources
     DEPENDS ${BUILD_DIR}/common/atoms-intern.h
-            ${BUILD_DIR}/common/atoms-extern.h
-            ${BUILD_DIR}/common/tokenize.c
-            ${BUILD_DIR}/common/tokenize.h)
+            ${BUILD_DIR}/common/atoms-extern.h)
 
 # Default theme directory
 file(MAKE_DIRECTORY ${BUILD_DIR}/themes/default)
diff --git a/awesomeConfig.cmake b/awesomeConfig.cmake
index 7480cefe6..c657d4cc0 100644
--- a/awesomeConfig.cmake
+++ b/awesomeConfig.cmake
@@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ a_find_program(LN_EXECUTABLE ln TRUE)
 a_find_program(GREP_EXECUTABLE grep TRUE)
 a_find_program(GIT_EXECUTABLE git FALSE)
 a_find_program(HOSTNAME_EXECUTABLE hostname FALSE)
-a_find_program(GPERF_EXECUTABLE gperf TRUE)
 # programs needed for man pages
 a_find_program(ASCIIDOC_EXECUTABLE asciidoc FALSE)
 a_find_program(XMLTO_EXECUTABLE xmlto FALSE)
diff --git a/build-utils/gperf.sh b/build-utils/gperf.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 96587fcfd..000000000
--- a/build-utils/gperf.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,130 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-#
-# Copyright © 2008 Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
-#
-# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
-# (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
-# with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
-# 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
-#
-
-
-die() {
-    echo "$@" 1>&2
-    exit 2
-}
-
-do_hdr() {
-    cat <<EOF
-/* This file is autogenerated by $(basename $0) */
-
-EOF
-}
-
-out=
-type_t=
-
-while true; do
-    test $# -gt 2 || break
-    case "$1" in
-        -o) shift; out="$1"; shift;;
-        -t) shift; type_t="$1"; shift;;
-        *)  break;;
-    esac
-done
-
-do_h() {
-    cat <<EOF
-`do_hdr`
-#ifndef AWESOME_TOKENIZE_H
-#define AWESOME_TOKENIZE_H
-
-typedef enum awesome_token_t {
-    A_TK_UNKNOWN,
-`LC_ALL=C tr a-z A-Z | sed -e "s/^[^/].*/    A_TK_&,/"`
-} awesome_token_t;
-
-__attribute__((pure)) enum awesome_token_t a_tokenize(const char *s, int len);
-#endif
-EOF
-}
-
-do_tokens() {
-    while read tok; do
-        case "$tok" in
-            "") continue;;
-            *)
-                echo "$tok, A_TK_`echo $tok | LC_ALL=C tr a-z A-Z`"
-                ;;
-        esac
-    done
-}
-
-do_c() {
-    which gperf > /dev/null
-    if test $? = 1 ; then
-        echo "gperf not found. You need to install gperf." > /dev/stderr;
-        exit 1;
-    fi;
-
-    gperf -l -t -C -F",0" \
-        --language=ANSI-C -Na_tokenize_aux <<EOF \
-        | sed -e '/__gnu_inline__/d;s/\<\(__\|\)inline\>//g'
-%{
-`do_hdr`
-
-#include <string.h>
-#include "common/tokenize.h"
-
-static const struct tok *a_tokenize_aux(const char *str, unsigned int len);
-
-%}
-struct tok { const char *name; int val; };
-%%
-`do_tokens`
-%%
-
-awesome_token_t a_tokenize(const char *s, int len)
-{
-    if (len < 0)
-        len = (int)strlen(s);
-
-    if (len) {
-        const struct tok *res = a_tokenize_aux(s, len);
-        return res ? res->val : A_TK_UNKNOWN;
-    } else {
-        return A_TK_UNKNOWN;
-    }
-}
-EOF
-}
-
-extract_tokens() {
-    grep '^### ' "$1" | cut -d ' ' -f 2
-}
-
-
-TOKENS_FILE="$1"
-TARGET="$2"
-
-trap "rm -f ${TARGET}" 0
-
-rm -f "${TARGET}"
-case "${TARGET}" in
-    *.h) do_h > "${TARGET}" < "${TOKENS_FILE}" ;;
-    *.c) do_c > "${TARGET}" < "${TOKENS_FILE}" ;;
-    *)  die "you must ask for the 'h' or 'c' generation";;
-esac
-chmod -w "${TARGET}"
-
-trap - 0
-exit 0
diff --git a/common/luaclass.h b/common/luaclass.h
index 49080458e..db1f2cf26 100644
--- a/common/luaclass.h
+++ b/common/luaclass.h
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@
 #define AWESOME_COMMON_LUACLASS
 
 #include "common/signal.h"
-#include "common/tokenize.h"
 
 typedef struct lua_class_property lua_class_property_t;
 
diff --git a/objects/widget.h b/objects/widget.h
index eb4b43248..e975e0453 100644
--- a/objects/widget.h
+++ b/objects/widget.h
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@
 
 #include "button.h"
 #include "draw.h"
-#include "common/tokenize.h"
 
 typedef widget_t *(widget_constructor_t)(widget_t *);
 typedef void (widget_destructor_t)(widget_t *);
diff --git a/objects/widgets/textbox.c b/objects/widgets/textbox.c
index af7ad66e8..0d0bc77e3 100644
--- a/objects/widgets/textbox.c
+++ b/objects/widgets/textbox.c
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@
 
 #include "objects/widget.h"
 #include "luaa.h"
-#include "common/tokenize.h"
 
 /** Padding type */
 typedef struct